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Research regarding fatal attractions has indicated several areas, themes, processes as well as the likeliness of certain attractions leading to fatal attractions. However, research has not ascertained whether certain ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the communication of positive illusions (PIs) during big fights in dating relationships. A communicative analysis of PIs was investigated. Both members of dating couples individually ...

This study was designed to explore the degree to which participants consider their tattoos communicative and to probe the relationship between public self-consciousness and tattoo visibility. Based on impression management ...

The current study explored how victims of Internet-related stalking crimes cope with relational intrusions. Using a communication privacy management framework, research questions examined strategies that victims used in ...

In this paper, the differences in perceptions of verbally rude messages as a function of relational closeness are examined. Due to the lack of a sufficiently useful definition of verbal rudeness in extant research, a new ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between communicative responses to romantic jealousy and commitment. Two hundred and three participants who have experienced jealousy in a romantic relationship ...

A growing number of Japanese women devote both personal and professional investment in a variety of so-called "realm of foreign" endeavors, which include study abroad, travel abroad, or work in foreign affiliated firms ...

The young adult population, defined as persons between the ages of 18-24, includes the youngest legal targets of tobacco industry marketing and is often overlooked by public health efforts. The primary goal of this study ...

This thesis was a preliminary application of the concept of intercultural communication competence to assess instructors' communication with diverse student populations as a means of identifying successful classroom practice ...

The study of political socialization has been focused primarily on either the agent of socialization or the learner being socialized, while scant attention has been paid to how the socialization actually occurs. This study ...

This research investigates how people use popular music, particularly wedding songs, to communicate. Participants were gathered at a bridal expo who either "Have a Wedding Song" or have "Witnessed a Wedding Song". Results ...

Using an expectancy violation theoretical framework, this investigation provides an examination of the association between workplace social support and job satisfaction. In particular, this study explores the relationship ...

The study of suspicion in previous research has primarily focused on the impact of suspicion on deception detection accuracy or the pragmatics of suspicious receivers. The premise of the present study is that cognitive ...

Just as individuals are faced with the decision to stay or leave their relationships, students are faced with the important decision to persist or depart their colleges or universities before graduation. Student departure, ...